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Your instruction is selective.
It makes me wonder what it's for
if it just adds mortal fuel
to this building moral war.
We hear echoes of faith
in shouts of anger and contempt,
noises of derision from the heaven-sent.
Tradition, indecision, blasphemy to ask for proof.
Use god-given minds to blind yourselves,
twist words for your own use.
But the religion that you preach
inside your holy halls of truth
is just oppression when it's forced upon our youth.

It's such a simple thing,
just to believe without a thought,
spitting back the tired words
along with faith that you've been taught.
And this prejudice is natural,
it all comes out the same.
All the infidels and heathens
are distrusted in his name.
Divide the population
between the righteous and the damned
until the holy war is over
and not a single sinner stands.
If you hold the keys to heaven,
I'm sure I'll find myself in hell
because I will not pay blood money
for salvation that you sell.

Do you think that,
if your god were here today,
he would approve
of laying claim to some exclusive paradise?
I'm not seeking absolution
or forgiveness for some crime.
I'm not buying into your exclusive paradise.
Not this time.

Compassion for unfortunate,
compassion for the poor,
while the gold inside your churches
could feed all these mouths, and more.
Donations are accepted,
call the number on your screen.
This compassion isn't all
that it would seem to be.
Professions of allegiance
to an institution lie,
forcing words into my mouth
to build a violent storm inside.
Cast the first stone to condemn me
for a different point of view,
but it seems to me the Son of Man
was a nonconformist, too.

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from Shallow, released November 1, 1993

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whatever... Cleveland, Ohio

whatever... was a Cleveland band in the 1990s. We opened for lots of great acts (e.g., Jawbox, Bosstones, Samiam) and even had a following of our own. Really, if you went to a Cleveland punk show in the mid-'90s, chances are pretty good you saw us. This is the stuff we were playing early on.

You can also hit either of the below links to buy the band's final album, Youngsters, on Amazon or iTunes. ... more

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